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After they were behind bars, Staten Islander Richard Cantarella (right) convinced his son Paul to help prosecuters with information on Bonanno crime family activities that resulted in numerous arrests.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Three Staten Island mobsters, a convicted couple and their son, could get a break at sentencing next month for deciding to help authorities bust other Bonanno suspects, according to a published report.

Former Bonanno capo Richard "Shellackhead" Cantarella, his wife Lauretta Castelli and son Paul Cantarella are set to be sentenced next month in Brooklyn Federal Court, the Daily News reported.

The Mafia family from Huguenot pleaded guilty to laundry list of charges after their arrests more than 10 years ago. Some time after that, the trio decided to talk and their information led to major Bonanno crime family busts.

"The Cantarella family's cooperation was, by any measure, substantial and extraordinary, resulting in the conviction of numerous members of the Bonanno family," Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy Busa stated in court papers seeking reduced sentences, the News reported.

Richard Cantarella, 69, is facing life in prison for three mob murders. But his testimony helped in the federal prosecution for Bonanno boss Joseph Massino and his successor, Vincent Basciano.

Cantarella reportedly got his son involved in organized crime in 1995 and also got his wife to launder money.

In October 2002, the FBI arrested the Cantarellas at their Island home.

Cantarella had killed men suspected of being rats, including Enrico Mazzeo, a corrupt deputy commissioner of the city Marine and Aviation Department who had awarded no-bid newsstand concessions to the Bonannos at the Staten Island ferry terminals, the News reported.

He reportedly decided to cooperate after his wife was arrested on the money laundering charges and son Paul was already talking while behind bars, according to Advance reports from nearly a decade ago.

"(Paul) Canterella's cooperation was essential to securing the cooperation of his father Richard," the U.S. attorney stated in court papers to Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis.

Richard and Paul Cantarella provided information on about three dozen gangsters from the city's five crime families and the DeCavalcante crime family of New Jersey. Prosecutors credit them with more than two dozen convictions, according to the News.

Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis could sentence Paul Cantarella to 20 years in prison and his mother up to one year, but there is speculation that the three will walk in return for helping the feds.